Swap a unplayable league for a playable one?

retired_jean08 · 03-26-2007, 08:21 PM

Possibly. I'd suggest just using another league system. While it'd obviously not be the same, it should play good enough.

Leagues with similar amounts of teams I've had working are Israel and Malaysia. While both have limitations on foriegn players(max of 5) it should not pose too much of a problem as I'd imagine Faroes teams do not have that many in the first place and probably won't be able to sign many.

retired_rdhertsel · 03-26-2007, 08:24 PM

I've already done it with Israel.. I ran one year in holiday mode to see if things were ok, but after 1 year I had 12 mill (danish currency) in the balance.. that is ten times what a rich faroese team has...

So in longterm it will be unplayable.. :thdn:

Thats why Iceland is so perfect for it :thup:

So I have to wait until SI make the faroese league playable in FM

retired_jean08 · 03-26-2007, 08:28 PM

Try Malaysia. They get MUCH less TV money. I don't know if it is true, but I noticed that Israel has all games except 2 as TV games, with each TV game being about £200k(I don't know how much that is in Danish) and Malaysia only has 2 games on TV(Saturday and Sunday evening) per week, which do not earn much money.

retired_rdhertsel · 03-26-2007, 08:32 PM

sounds interesting.. I think I'll give it a go..

£200k is roughly 2mil DKK

retired_rdhertsel · 03-27-2007, 06:41 PM

I've now swapped faroes for malaysia and it works..

Everything runs like its supposed to except for one, quite important thing. I keep getting sacked on 30. dec 2006. Not matter how I do.. I've won all my matches: sacked, I've lost all matches: sacked.

I've tried running on holiday until 29th dec and checking things (league position, player happiness, board/supporter happiness....) and everything is great and still I get sacked.. without an explanation.

I've also tried starting a new game to see if it was a one-off in that savegame, but to no avail..

any help is much appreciated

retired_jean08 · 03-28-2007, 03:27 AM

Happened to me one time. I just retired, created a new manager(same name/club etc.) and it worked fine from then on.

It also never happened when I started a new game. If it's a recurring problem, I have no idea what's causing it.

retired_rdhertsel · 03-28-2007, 09:58 AM

I noticed that my team had a very high reputation in comparion with the other teams in the league so I've changed it and then it worked..

Perhaps board expectations is linked with team rep and also team rep in comparison with the other teams in the league..

Anyhoo.. I've added a few B-teams to the lower division and first division (playable) and it works great :thup: - however there is one little problem.. the B-teams that are in the lower division cant promote to the playable league (even though they can play there if I put them there manually. This means that the first division actually only gets 1 team promoted and 2 relegated and after 2 season it has gone from 11 teams to 9 teams and now it is stable at 9 teams (its no shrinking anymore).

The obvious solution is to create 2 new teams and put them in the lower division, but I'd prefer NOT to create fictional teams so the question is: How can I make the B-teams promote to the first division?

retired_jean08 · 03-29-2007, 04:22 AM

Unfortunately you can't. Even in Spain and the likes. My syggestion would be not to create fictional teams, but rather, if you could make the B teams be seperate clubs and just add a link as a feeder club(loans only, or possibly players move freely) in the editor. While this obviously won't be realistic, it'll work out better than your league shrinking.